Volume of Instruments
In playing around with Musescore 3, I've come to realize that multiple of the same instrument playing the same melody has the same volume as that of just a single instrument of the same type playing said melody. Is there anyway that I could make the instruments sound louder when all of them are playing at once?
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If you press F10 mixer option will appear and you can adjust the levels
You can select the notes you want louder (select a section of measures, open the inspector by pressing F8 and click the "Notes" button). You can then set the velocity type to offset (velocity is basically the midi term for volume) and set the velocity number to something larger than 0 to make it louder (I suggest you start at 10 or 15). This number will be added to the velocity set in the dynamics. 127 is the largest number that will be played.
What I do is load a few sound fonts. I use one sound font for instrument 1 (set this in the mixer), another for instrument 2 and so forth. This makes it sound like several instruments playing rather than 1 louder instrument.
In reply to You can select the notes you… by mike320
Are the soundfonts you’re mentioning here a part of Musescore 3 or external software? If the latter, where can I find this perfect sounding soundfont you’ve described?
In reply to Are the soundfonts you’re… by Metanoeon
Soundfont info. can be found here:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/soundfonts-and-sfz-files
It also shows a list of downloadable soundfonts.
In reply to Are the soundfonts you’re… by Metanoeon
I don't have a perfect soundfont because none exist. I have several acceptable soundfonts. They do a reasonable job of making the instruments sound like what they are. All of the soundfonts I have are free and I think they are all listed in https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/soundfonts-and-sfz-files.